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Video Art Historicized - Traditions and Negotiations (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Video Art Historicized - Traditions and Negotiations (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Art Historiography
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Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards
challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices.
From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with
this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Important
issues were to re-think art as a means for critical investigations
and a demand for visual reconsiderations. Likewise, art history was
argued to be in crisis and in need of adapting its theories and
methods in order to produce interpretations and thereby establish
historical sense for moving images as fine art. Yet, as this book
argues, video art history has evolved into a discourse clinging to
traditional concepts, ideologies, and narrative structures -
manifested in an increasing body of texts. Video Art Historicized
provides a novel, insightful and also challenging re-interpretation
of this field by examining the discourse and its own premises. It
takes a firm conceptual approach to the material, examining the
conceptual, theoretical, and methodological implications that are
simultaneously contested by both artists and authors, yet
intertwined in both the legitimizing and the historicizing
processes of video as art. By engaging art history's most debated
concepts (canon, art, and history) this study provides an in-depth
investigation of the mechanisms of the historiography of video art.
Scrutinizing various narratives on video art, the book emphasizes
the profound and widespread hesitations towards, but also the
efforts to negotiate, traditional concepts and practices. By
focusing on the politics of this discourse, theoretical issues of
gender, nationality, and particular themes in video art, Malin
Hedlin Hayden contests the presumptions that inform video art and
its history.
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